Stephan Stowe, 17, was charged with harassment after telling Jewish rider ‘They should have killed all of you.’ Police also wrestled a woman to the ground and arrested her after angry onlookers swarmed the station’s platform, snapping video and yelling at cops during the incident.

The NYPD was absolutely right to arrest the teen for harassing the Jewish rider. If someone had said something similar about a black person and the cops arrested the person speaking so, they’d have been right to arrest them for harassment, too.

As for the crowd, they should have backed up and stayed a distance away. Also, the person being arrested could have defused it all by simply going with the cops and getting done with it.